Charles glover



(No M0del.) I I I G. GLOVER.

MANUFACTURE OF GOAT AND HAT HOOKS. No. 448,224. Patented Mar. 17, 1891.

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Wwz M CHARLES GLOVER, OF NEW BRITAIN,

CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO P. d: F.

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MANUFACTURE OF COAT AND HAT HOOKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 448,224, dated March17, 1891.

Application filed September 6, 1890. Serial No. 364.099. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

3e it known that I, CHARLES GLOVER, a citizen of the United States,residing at New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in theManufacture of Coat and Hat Hooks, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of coat and hathooks; and the chief object of my improvement is to produce a cheap andsubstantial hook from wire and sheet metal.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a piece ofWire headed at each end, the same representing the result of the firststep in making the wire portion of my hook. Fig. 2 is aside elevation ofthe partially-formed wire portion, the same having been formed from theheaded blank shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation, partly insection, of the wire portion of my hook, the same being ready for beingunited with the sheet-metal base. Fig. 4; is a plan view of the blankfor the sheet-metal base. Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the same in itscomplete form. Fig. 6 is a plan View of said base, and Fig. 7 is aperspective view of the finished article.

I make the wire portion of my hook from an ordinary piece of drawn wire,preferably brass, the first operation being to form a double-headedblank of the proper length for making the wire portion, as shown inFig. 1. This may be formed in any ordinary heading or upsetting machine,and, if desired, one of the heads may be formed previously to cuttingthe wire off to make the desired length, or the wire may be first cutand the heads then formed upon its respective ends. I next take theblank, Fig. 1, and strike it in dies, which swages or drops up the rivet(L on the front side of the middle portion, and bends the hooks at theirbase, as shown in Fig. 2. This rivet can be readily formed in dies byforming a depression b, Fig. 3, in the back side of the middle portion,as shown in Fig. 3, so that there will be stock enough thrown out at thefront to form the rivet a. The swaged and partially-bent blank, Fig. 2,is then further bent into the desired form of hooks A B, as shown inFigs. 3 and 7 The sheet-metal base C for securing the hook upon the wallis made by cutting a blank from sheet metal in the form shown in Fig. 4,and then dropping or swaging said blank into the form shown in Figs. 5and 6. As thus formed, the part C consists of two wings or brackets 19 bfor resting upon the wall or other support to which said plate may besecured, and a middle socket c to receive the body portion of the wirepart on which the hooks A B are formed. The front of this socket isperforated, as at (1, Figs. 4 and 5, and after the wire and sheet-metalparts have been placed together, with the rivet a entering theperforation d, they are permanently secured by upsetting the end of saidrivet.

I am aware that a prior English patent shows and describes making coatand hat hooks of wire and a sheet-metal plate by placing a coil ofsmaller wire around the ends of the larger wire, then swaging tosolidify the same and dressing off into proper form, and securing saidplate and hook portion together by bending the opposite edges and notthe middle portion of said plate, and the same is hereby disclaimed.

By my improvement I form the hook portion of the article of a singlepiece of wire with solid heads, and the base of sheet metal by swagingthe middle portion to form a socket at its back to receive the middle ofthe hook portion, and mechanically secure them together by riveting,thus forming a cheap and efficient coat and hat hook from only one pieceof wire and one piece of sheet metal.

I claim as my invention- That improvement in the manufacture of coat andhat hooks which consists of forming the wire part by first upsetting theopposite ends of a piece of wire to form an integral head at each end,then swaging and bending the same to form the middle portion and hooks,and forming a separate sheet-metal base by blanking the same from sheetmetal and swaging its middle portion to form a socket on its back side,and finally securing said sheet-metal base and wire portion together toform the complete hook, substantially as described, and for the purposespecified.

CHARLES GLOVER.

Witnesses:

O. A. BLAIR, G. E. R001.

